[8] See Hinsdale's Old Northwest, Chapter X. A bibliography of the Negotiations at Paris, 1782-'83, is given in Hinsdale's Southern Boundary of the United States, published in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1893, p. 339, footnote. [9] See Gould's Fifty Years on the Mississippi, 182 et seq.; 288 et seq. [10] Stoddard's Sketches, 88-'9. [11] Ib. 90. [12] Ib. 99. [13] He was at this time Governor General of Louisiana. [14] Amer. State Papers. For. Rel. II.79. This opinion is corroborated by Marbois (Hist. of La., 162) who made a study of the subject from the French standpoint. [15] Martin's History of La., 271-5. [16] He was Governor of the Natchez District and was stationed at the town of Natchez. [17] Ellicott had made the surveys locating the limits of the District of Columbia, in 1791 (Chas. Burr Todd's Story of Washington, 21). The year following he was appointed to draft and publish a plan of the Federal City (Ib. 30). He also established the Meridian of Washington, conducted several other important public surveys and served a number of years as Surveyor General of the United States. In 1813, General Armstrong appointed him Professor of Mathematics in the United States' Military Academy at West Point, which position he held for several years. He was in constant communication with the National Institute of France and contributed to the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. His official dispatches while engaged as Commissioner for locating the boundary between the United States and Spain may be found in the American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. II. A more extensive account is given in narrative form in Ellicott's Journal, published at Philadelphia, in 1803. All his writings with reference to Mississippi must be read with caution, since they exhibit intense partisan animus.